RxDoctor Payments Data

Arup Sarkar, MD

Family Medicine · Saginaw, MINPI 1477548899

Payments from drug & device makers

$605in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $23.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$197
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$103
  • Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$63
  • Lilly USA, LLC$51
  • Pfizer$39
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$33
  • plus $118 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$605100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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24

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$72,110
Medicare patients
237
Services billed
2,383

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter214$174,393
EliquisApixaban130$142,458
JardianceEmpagliflozin47$75,918
OzempicSemaglutide71$75,118
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol36$33,757
MounjaroTirzepatide18$30,803
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate30$25,017
XareltoRivaroxaban13$21,728
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen944$20,391
LinzessLinaclotide20$16,849
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase11$13,861
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol29$12,901
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog64$12,877
KerendiaFinerenone16$9,910
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$8,292

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$26$192,121254 claims
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$39$148,571147 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$103$83,14560 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$28$75,11871 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$197$33,75736 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$51$30,80318 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$14$21,72813 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$12$21,35432 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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